About kaushik
ML engineer who builds retrieval systems and measures them.Right now I'm building video-native semantic search at an early-stage startup — shot-boundary detection, video-language embeddings, ASR, and hybrid dense+BM25 retrieval with cross-encoder reranking. Before that, at CVS Health, I built the ingestion and retrieval layer for a regulatory-compliance RAG system over ~50,000 pages of federal regulations, improving Recall@5 from ~70% to ~92%.On my own, I've shipped three deployed products: a hybrid graph+vector RAG system over USCIS immigration forms (with a measured +11.6-point recall lift over a naive baseline), a QLoRA fine-tune of Qwen 2.5 14B for an AI companion app, and a serverless F1 intelligence platform.I work full-stack — FastAPI/Django, React/Next.js, AWS/GCP — but retrieval and evaluation are where I go deep. I care about systems that ship and numbers I can defend.Open to ML / AI engineering roles. Available immediately.
Key Skills
Experience
Machine Learning Engineer
CurrentStealth Startup
Machine Learning Engineer
Cvs Health
* Focused on developing and deploying Python-based machine learning models to solve key business problems in retail analytics, directly impacting inventory management and customer engagement strategies. Engineered and deployed a suite of Python-based machine learning models to forecast retail demand for pharmaceutical products, resulting in a 15% improvement in inventory turnover and a significant reduction in overstock situations. Developed customer segmentation models using Python and Scikit-learn (K-Means Clustering) to analyze purchasing behavior, powering personalized marketing campaigns and leading to a 10% increase in customer retention. Designed and implemented a dynamic pricing optimization engine using regression models in Python, which contributed to a 5% uplift in profit margins on key product lines.
Application Development Associate
Accenture In India
* Spearheaded a critical modernization project, migrating a legacy system to a high-performance Python backend to improve scalability, performance, and development agility. * Led the refactoring of a monolithic application into a modern Python and Django microservices architecture, significantly improving the system's maintainability and scalability. * The backend migration and optimization effort led to a 40% improvement in API response times and a 60% reduction in codebase complexity. * Designed and implemented a new suite of secure RESTful APIs in Python, which served as the primary interface for new front-end services and enhanced the team's development agility.
Education
Lindsey Wilson University
Masters
University Of California, Riverside
Master Of Science
Cvr College Of Engineering, Hyderabad
Bachelor Of Technology
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kaushik specializes in Fine-Tuning Engineer, with expertise in .net framework, amazon web services, angular, c (programming language), c#.
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kaushik is based in nashville, tennessee, united states.
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